On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 13:41 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:22:13PM -0600, Jerone Young wrote:
> anything Pentium class and up now. I can tell you though that running
> KDE or Gnome on a Pentium 200 with 128mb Ram is pure torture (never
> had a chance to try Xfce though, I threw those boxes out). Only thing
XFce + abiword is eminently usable in 64-128Mb.
> they are good for now for basic server side services stuff (apache ,
> samba, etc) nowaday.
And unlike a PIV also rather cheap to run of course. Admittedly I mostly
keep my IDT Winchip box to annoy Dave Jones.
To get yum to be happier on low-mem machines, especially for updates
try:
yum --disablerepo=base update
it will not import the base package set which drops the memory usage a
bunch.
-sv